WASH, including waste management and environmental cleaning, is essential for IPC. This guidance note helps WASH staff in their preparedness and response to the current COVID-19 pandemic. It provides an overview of Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) and its intersection with water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH).

Infection Prevention and Control measures (IPC) are a set of interventions aimed at preventing the transmission of infections to patients, visitors and staff within Health facilities. The prevention of infections associated with health care (HAI) avoids unnecessary illnesses and, sometimes, even death, saves money, reduces antibiotic resistance ...

The Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Framework for the IPC/I package provides adaptable, actionable guidance to review, monitor and measure the implementation, use, learning, and impact of the IPC/I Initiative and its components.

Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Global Webinar Series Description: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the World Health Organization (WHO), IPC professional societies and Project ECHO are hosting a weekly webinar series for IPC in healthcare settings.

It provides an overview of Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) and its intersection with water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and how UNICEF staff can help prevent infection and its spread in schools, through human to human and by touching surfaces contaminated with the virus.

UNICEF and partners are pleased to introduce this IPC for Immunization package and invite national and sub-national programme managers, partners and FLWs to adapt it to their local context and use it to guide their work with caregivers and communities.

This guidance note explains how the WASH sector can implement infection prevention and control measures in households and community settings. It focuses on two main objectives: (1) Reducing the exposure to the disease in vulnerable community settings and public spaces. (2)

The Supportive Supervision of IPC/I Manual for Supervisors of Frontline Workers in Immunization (Supportive Supervision Manual) is designed to help supervisors support Frontline workers (FLWs) to improve IPC in immunization services.

This UNICEF Interpersonal Communication for Immunization Package (IPC/I) aims to improve IPC in FLW interactions with families and caregivers so can better engage, mobilize, and empower communities to adopt preventive behaviors such as immunization. The comprehensive IPC/I Package supports IPC aspects of FLWs’ immunization work globally.

It provides an overview of Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) and its intersection with water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), and how UNICEF staff can help prevent infection and its spread in schools, whether through human-to-human or by touching surfaces contaminated with the virus.